America’s Authoritarian Nightmare is Coming True
It’s Time For Americans to Start Thinking the Unthinkable
The White House turned into a fortress by a lunatic President. Protestors being gassed with chemical agents in front of it. Police beating people — old, young, black, white — in city after city. Tough guys who assault little girls for posting protest signs calling for…justice. Soldiers in the streets of the nation’s capitol. Military vehicles roaring through it. New York Times op-eds by major political figures calling for people to be…shot.
America’s
authoritarian nightmare is coming true.
All of that raises a question for
people like us — those of us who saw it coming.
The last four years have unfolded according to our worst fears. So what if the next six months do too? *Shudder*.
Let me begin with the first part.
The last four years have unfolded to according to our worst fears. By “our,” I mean people like me. Those of us who’ve studied how societies collapse — and lived in survived authoritarianism, too. Of course, you don’t have to be either of these things, scholar or survivor, to have harbored those worst fears. Maybe you just knew, the day Trump crowed “grab ’em by the pussy!” Or when he called refugees “vermin.” Or, or, or.
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